Kind of a weird topic, but OK, I'm game. Let's see. "About me" is ... of course, a computer, a screen and a keyboard. There's also an ink-jet printer; a dogeared, mangled portable dicitonary; and a video surveillance screen, with full-color pictures of eight different locales. There was also a banana about me, but I just ate it, so now it's in me.

My favorite novels, in order: 1.) "The Moon and Sixpence," W. Somerset Maugham 2.) "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison 3.) "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley 4.) "Riddley Walker," Russell Hoban 5.) "Ask the Dust," John Fante

My favorite movie: "Cinema Paradiso."

"All stories are tragedies, eventually."

Once, I overheard myself say to a friend in a tavern, "That guy on the other side of the bar must be a lush. I see him in here all the time...."

"Speak the truth and your voice will stand out. This is guaranteed because so many people don't, out of willful distortion for expediency or because they're frightened for some reason."